Everyone already knows Dax Whitney's name. That's fine. He's earned it. But if you've been sleeping on what's been happening down in Gainesville this spring, it's time to wake up — because Brendan Lawson is doing something real, and the gap between him and the top of the 2027 Draft board isn't quite what the general public seems to think it is.
Lawson arrived at Florida as the kind of prospect evaluators get excited about and then spend the next year quietly arguing over. The tools were always there. The questions were always there too — defensive home, how the hit tool would play against big arms. College baseball has a way of answering those questions, one spring at a time.
On the offensive side, the numbers have been staggering. Through the first few weeks of the season, Lawson is hitting .421 with nine home runs and 26 RBI. That's …